Carrie Anne Philbin
Carrie Anne Philbin is an English teacher of computer science and an author. She is a director of educator support at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and chairs the Computing At School diversity and inclusion group, #CASInclude. She wrote the computing book Adventures in Raspberry Pi for teenagers. She runs the YouTube channel Geek Gurl Diaries and in 2017, was the host for Crash Course Computer Science.
Early life and education
Philbin studied history at the University of Essex. She taught herself to program and manage computer systems after she graduated. She trained as a school computing teacher and worked in East London. she is doing a PhD supervised by Sue Sentance at the University of Cambridge.Career
Philbin has been responsible for teaching children and teachers how to code in Python programming language and the Scratch programming language. In 2014 she began to work at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. She is a Google Certified Teacher and was a Skype Movement Maker. Philbin leads strategy, continuing professional development program and learning at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. She was an advisor to the Department for Education for the UK's first computing curriculum. In 2016 she was named as one of Computer Weeklys most influential women rising stars. She chairs the Computing At School diversity and inclusion program and was a member of the board of directors at Python Software Foundation until 2017. She was appointed a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and named Computer Weekly's third most influential woman in IT in 2017. She is a founder member of CasInclude an organisation supporting diversity in computing, for children in school. She won the 2018 FDM Group Everywoman Tech Digital Star Award.Philbin is a regular speaker at conferences like the British Educational Training and Technology Show, Raspberry Jams, International Society for [Technology in Education] conference and Python conferences PyCon AU, EuroPython and PyCon UK.
In 2019, Philbin was 17th in Computer Weekly's 50 'Most Influential Women in UK Tech' shortlist for her role as Director of Education at the Raspberry Pi Foundation